AirDefense BlueWatch Now Available
on PDAs
Market Leader Continues to
Offer the Wireless LAN Industry's
Most Comprehensive Suite of Intrusion Prevention Solutions
Atlanta, GA- March 22, 2005 - AirDefense, the leader
in anywhere, anytime wireless security monitoring, today announced
AirDefense BlueWatch™,
the industry's first commercial-grade Bluetooth monitoring solution
available on personal digital assistants (PDAs). AirDefense
BlueWatch enables organizations to identify rogue and insecure
Bluetooth devices in their wireless environment.
Today, many companies already employ a "no Bluetooth policy"
preventing employees, visitors and vendors from bringing Bluetooth-enabled
devices into their organizations. These companies will benefit
from using AirDefense BlueWatch to detect Bluetooth as people
pass through designated entry points of an organization - a
clear reminder of the security policy.
"The AirDefense BlueWatch PDA was designed to enable administrators
to more easily track down Bluetooth devices," said Anil
Khatod, president and CEO of AirDefense. "With the availability
of BlueWatch, AirDefense is continuing to develop the most innovative
and useful technology being used today to prevent wireless network
intrusions from occurring."
The popularity of Bluetooth hacking is growing rapidly in both
the United States and Europe. The most popular attack, Bluesnarf,
enables hackers to steal users' calendars, contact lists, e-mail
or text messages. A hacker can easily discover and connect to
these devices and instantaneously steal a person's data or interrupt
transactions.
Like the original version of BlueWatch available for Windows
XP or Windows 2000 laptops, AirDefense BlueWatch PDA monitors
the airwaves to:
Identify
different types of Bluetooth devices, including laptops, PDAs,
keyboards and cell phones
Provide key
attributes, including device class, manufacturer and signal
strength
Illustrate
communication or connectivity among various devices
Identify
services available on each device, including network access,
fax and audio gateway
AirDefense BlueWatch
is part of the AirDefense family of products, which provides wireless
intrusion prevention based on patent-pending technology that identifies
wireless activities anywhere, anytime. The flagship product, AirDefense
Enterprise, uses distributed sensors to monitor the airwaves and
communicate back to a central server appliance. The server correlates
and analyzes the data to provide scalable, centralized management
of all wireless deployments by providing rogue detection, policy
enforcement, intrusion prevention and health monitoring of the
wireless network.
About AirDefense, Inc.
AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless
security and monitoring. The company's products provide the
most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy
enforcement and intrusion protection both inside and outside
an organization's four walls. AirDefense's enterprise-class
products scale to support everything from single offices to
organizations with hundreds of locations. Founded in 2001, AirDefense
is based in Alpharetta, GA and services hundreds of government
agencies and blue chip corporations. For more information, please
visit http://www.airdefense.net or call 770.663.8115.
Contact:
Heidi Litner
AirDefense, Inc.
770-663-8115 x:110
hlitner@airdefense.net
Bill Keeler or Annelise Armstrong
Schwartz Communications
781 684-0770
airdefense@schwartz-pr.com
